SBD Dauntless during Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 18-19, 1944.

VMFA-314

A side view of a U.S. Navy F6C-3 fighter aircraft in its seaplane variant.

Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighter (Bureau # 9058), piloted by Lieutenant Harold B. Min Miller Flying over Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, in 1934. This plane was then assigned to USS Macon (ZRS-5).

U.S. Marine Corps photo of an MV-22 Osprey in flight with engines horizontal.

Presidential support squadron, Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMX) 1, received the first of 12 Ospreys to be operated by the squadron in May 2013. The HMX-1 tilrotors will carry presidential support staff and news media representatives traveling with the President, but not the President himself.

A U.S. Navy PN-9 taking off on the coast of Oahu. September 22. 1925.

An A-6 Intruder of VA-25 refuels an F-4B Phantom while a second Phantom escorts. All aircraft are assigned to the USS Constellation (CVA-64). June 1966.

Shenandoah over Boston. With #6 engine removed from the rear of the control car, and particularly, with water recovery unit on #3 power car, this photograph must have been taken on July 3, 1925, en route to Bar Harbor.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Corey Sumner, a San Francisco Maritime Enforcement specialist, conducts helicopter hoist training in the San Francisco Bay, Friday, June 20, 2014. The purpose of the training was to ensure Pluto is proficient in this deployment method. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Stanton)

Payoff --- Diver John Reaves of Sealab-II project, rewards porpoise Tuffy with a fish as they train together 80 feet down in the open ocean off Point Mugu, Calif. Tuffy will work with Reaves and other divers next month in experiments to see how a porpoise can assist man underwater. A snap hook is attached to Tuffys harness which enables him to carry messages and tools to the divers. Sealab-II, a joint effort of the Office of Naval Research and the Navys Special Projects Office, will subject divers to long periods of living and working underwater. Tuffy will join the Sealab-II team for about a week early in September. The experiments with Tuffy during Sealab-II is a project of the U.S. Naval Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, Calif. Scientists there are studying marine mammals in the hope of obtaining information which will enhance mans operations underwater. Photograph taken on 13 August 1965.

The so-called black ships of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perrys two visits to Japan in 1852-54 were the symbols of what the outside world had to offer the Japanese as featured in this Japanese print from about 1861.

Perrys Victory on Lake Erie. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum.

Reproduction of a painting of the USS Constellation by Phillips Melville

In Spray Pattern by Navy reservist Herbert C. Hahn, the Allen M. Sumner or Gearing class destroyer was escorting a carrier during the Korean War. Hahn had been called to active duty and was assigned to the USS Boxer (CV-12) where his spare-time sketches of ship activities caught the notice of senior officers. He requested and was assigned duty as a combat artist.